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10 minutes ago - COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : https://goo-totheregister.blogspot.com/?open=0199930368 | PDF The Company State Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India | Almost since the event itself in the English East India Companys victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born Examining the Companys political and intellectual history in the century prior to this supposed transformation The CompanyState rethinks this narrative and

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  1. Download PDF The Company State Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India full copy the link in the description or download button in the last page

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  3. Description : Almost since the event itself in the English East India Companys victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born Examining the Companys political and intellectual history in the century prior to this supposed transformation The CompanyState rethinks this narrative and the nature of the early East India Company itself In this book Philip J Stern reveals the history of a corporation concerned not simply with the bottom line but also with the science of colonial governance Stern demonstrates how Company leadership wrestled with typical early modern problems of political authority such as the mutual obligations of subjects and rulers the relationships among law economy and sound civil and colonial society the constitution of civic institutions ranging from tax collection and religious practice to diplomacy and warmaking and the nature of jurisdiction and sovereignty over people territory and the sea Their ideas emerged from abstract ideological historical and philosophical principles and from the realworld entanglements of East India Company employees and governors with a host of allies rivals and polyglot populations in their overseas plantations As the Company shaped this colonial polity it also confronted shifting definitions of state and sovereignty across Eurasia thatultimately laid the groundwork for the Companys incorporation into the British empire and state through the eighteenth centuryChallenging traditional distinctions between the commercial and imperial eras in

  4. British India as well as a colonial Atlantic world and a quottrading worldquot of Asia The CompanyState offers a unique perspective on the fragmented nature of state sovereignty and empire in the early modern world

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